Mac Danzig
Age/Height/WEIGHT: 28/5’9”/155
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
Fighting Style: Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing
Mac Danzig hates reality TV shows. He chastises his girlfriend for watching chefs and designer wannabes compete before a national audience. “I’m just like, man, I can’t believe people even watch that. And then it dawns on me. … Dude, you were just on one.” He even won one. A newcomer to the UFC and winner of the sixth season of The Ultimate Fighter, Danzig has paid his dues. He’s trained for seven years and fought for six, driving to Midwest amateur tournaments before moving to Los Angeles in 2002. He was the amateur U.S. MMA National Champ in 2001, had a 12-fight winning-streak from 2004 to 2006, and became King of the Cage champ in 2007, yet he still didn’t make the UFC. Danzig has a tattoo of a Scandinavian-knot work Viking dragon around his left thigh, thanks to Scott Riddle, of Pennsylvania’s Mark of Thor Tattoo. Danzig, who is half Scotch-Irish and half German-Scandinavian, says the tattoo is meaningful, “even though it’s a small part of my background.”